Wedding Video Boost Sales for Chris Brown
Kevin Heinz and Jill Peterson's wedding dance video has received over 12 million views on YouTube, making it the mot viewed video of the. The video features Chris Brown's "Forever" as members of the wedding party dance down the aisle.
The video has boosted sales for Brown. During the week of the video ending July 26, there have been over 50,000 downloads for the song. According to Neilson SoundScan, this brings the song up 1,721 percent from the previous week, reaching number 21 on the charts.
The song reached #3 on the charts on Amazon's mp3 store, and #4 on iTunes. Sony Music, Chris Brown's record label, is using the website's management tools to add the click-to-buy link which leads to both stores. The link has been used twice the average amount, reported The New York Times.
Coincidently, the wedding video made its debut the same week as Chris Brown's apology tape. In the video, Brown apologized for the incident that occurred earlier this year with him and girlfriend, Rihanna, which left the "Umbrella" singer battered and bruised.
This has been Chris Brown's most successful download of a song since "Forever" was first released, in which it received 77,000 downloads on Christmas week 2008.
